Edit: also a quick glance over petersons twitter should dispell the
notion he is in any way centrist (I know im preaching to the choir
here). All he does is repeat rw talking points.
I mean the guy rather famously did a video listing advice for a modern conservative movement: by the *name* "conservative". You'd have to be really fucking stupid not to pick up on that one.
A lot of people are plenty fucking stupid sadly, and a lot of people listen to those stupid people. (An example of a known stupid person, pewdiepie, he didn't even pick up on the christian undertones in the 'n rules for life' book).
People always invoke “armchair psychoanalysis” like they
know it’s a stupid and intellectually empty thing to engage in
and then go ahead and do it anyway.
Agreed that OP is a dork, and trying to say NYT is as bad as Fox is
absurd. However, I can’t say I enjoyed that NYT article at all.
Do we really think that people should feel a certain amount of guilt
for dating those of another race? Or at least that some races should? I
saw another article on Huffpost a couple months back about an Asian
woman feeling bad for dating a white man, and I had the same
reaction.
The NYT author articulated really well how he felt, and I don’t mean
to discount those feelings. I’m also a white dude, so I don’t want to be
unsympathetic towards others and how they feel about dating cross
culturally or what not. However, I just can’t see how this way of
thinking is how we as a society want to feel about race and dating. I
would imagine that the ideal attitude towards dating for a happy, free
society is that someone should date whoever the fuck they want.
I’m curious what people here think about the NYT article. I’ve never
posted or commented here before, but I’ve been lurking here for half a
year or so and really enjoy it.
Of course you're right and the attitude described in the article is not ideal (ETA: he has the right to his feelings, obviously, there's just no reason why he "should" feel guilt). The article got roundly dunked on in Social Justice Twitter, mocked for its misunderstanding of Baldwin and for the fact that the dude needs a therapist more than he needs space in the NYT.
Peterson was also talking about this. (And apparently didn’t read the article).
Edit: also a quick glance over petersons twitter should dispell the notion he is in any way centrist (I know im preaching to the choir here). All he does is repeat rw talking points.
Alternative title: Look at this extremely offended dork.
Sorry for the throwaway I post on SSC occasionally and don’t want the culture warriors to sift through my post history.
People always invoke “armchair psychoanalysis” like they know it’s a stupid and intellectually empty thing to engage in and then go ahead and do it anyway.
Agreed that OP is a dork, and trying to say NYT is as bad as Fox is absurd. However, I can’t say I enjoyed that NYT article at all.
Do we really think that people should feel a certain amount of guilt for dating those of another race? Or at least that some races should? I saw another article on Huffpost a couple months back about an Asian woman feeling bad for dating a white man, and I had the same reaction.
The NYT author articulated really well how he felt, and I don’t mean to discount those feelings. I’m also a white dude, so I don’t want to be unsympathetic towards others and how they feel about dating cross culturally or what not. However, I just can’t see how this way of thinking is how we as a society want to feel about race and dating. I would imagine that the ideal attitude towards dating for a happy, free society is that someone should date whoever the fuck they want.
I’m curious what people here think about the NYT article. I’ve never posted or commented here before, but I’ve been lurking here for half a year or so and really enjoy it.
the nyt is nearly as bad as fox tho
listen to Citations Needed